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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2020
Applicant:
Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Douglas Raye Reed, Austin, TX (US);
Colin Eddy, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0891 (2016.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0817 (2016.01); G06F 12/0871 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0817 (2013.01); G06F 12/0871 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: a first data cache; and a second data cache configured to process both a miss in the first data cache resulting from a first load or store operation and an eviction from the first data cache to accommodate the first load or store operation, the second data cache configured to indicate to the first data cache that the eviction is complete before the eviction is actually complete based on a first state corresponding to the eviction.